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The moviestick is a short monopod with two handles on both ends: one is fixed an the other one is adjustable. It also comes with a little devive you can put on your belt to support the monopod.

Also attached to the belt support is a little bag, which is quite useless I think but unfortunalety you can’t get rid of it because it’s mounted to this unit with rivets. This is a part the Moviestick-makers should necessarily change in future versions!!  This pretty unflexible belt mount makes it very diffucult to attached it to a hipbag like the Thinktank Wire Up for example. I found a workaround for that and mounted it to the Wire Up with an extra strap, which is not very elgenat but it works. My wish for this part of the gear is a belt-mount which can be opened and closed with a velcro trap or something similar!

The camera is mounted on the stick with a Manfrotto/Bogen quick-release plate, which is the same system I use on one of my normal tripods That makes changing the camera from the Moviestick to a tripod and vice versa pretty easy.

As I have written above there are to handles:

The one on the top hand is adjustable, the one on the lower end is fixed plus you can adjust the lenght of the stick. This makes it possible to adjust the system for any holding position. It can be used for many needs: all in all it is stabilizing the camera quite easily without limiting your flexibilty to move around.

I have tested the Moviestick on my trip to Visa pour L’Image the photojournalism festival in France this year

For those shots I attached the Moviestick belt support to my Thinktank Wire Up 10 with an extra strap as mentioned above. To transport the Moviestick when not in use I put it on top of the Wire Up and secured the Moviestick’s top handle on the Wire Up  with the bags handle. This setup made carrying my gear and shooting really easy.

For my work as a multimedia-journalist the Moviestick is a great camera support. It is versatile and lightweight but  you will need some practice to get the best results with it.

If your’re interested in buying the Moviestick you can contact the company here >>

Here are some examples I shot with the Moviestick:

First of all you can use the Moviestick as a very flexible tripod which allows much more positions than a normal one.
For example you can look down from the top:

or you can use the Moviestick as a kind of camera-crane:

With some practise the moviestick is also usable as a kind of cheap but usefull steadycam:

another example for the use as a steadycam:

You can watch the full movie about Visa pour l’Image here >>

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A quick and dirty edited review of my impressions from this year’s Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan.

That were great days. Thanks and regards to all the guys I met there!

Shot with Canon 5D Mark II, 50mm 1,8, 28mm 1,8 and Moviestick.

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( via twitter.com/multimedialinks )

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Photographs and audio by Karoki Lewis (www.karokilewis.com). Produced by Phil Coomes.

(via twitter.com/photojournsg )

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A story from the Rwandan Genocide by Brent Foster.

Shot on 5D MKII

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The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.

November 9th 2007 – November 13th 2008

one year on foot – 4646km through China

unlimited beard & hair growth

http://www.thelongestway.com

musical score by the kingpins ( http://www.myspace.com/theoneandonlykingpins ) and zhu fengbo

Additional info:

- I never finished my original goal of walking to Germany. Instead, I walked for a year and roughly 4500km, passed the desert of Gobi, and then decided to stop walking for now.

- All of the distance from Beijing to Ürümqi has been completed solely on foot, straight good old walking. There are instances where you can see me in the video sitting on a plane or riding a boat, but those are during breaks I had to take from walking, either to sort out bureaucracy issues or to take care of some personal things.

- I had been planning this trip for over a year before I even started, and getting as far as I got was an experience for which I am very grateful.

- Obtaining the necessary visa for a trip like this was not very easy, hence I had to go back to Beijing a few times to resolve some issues.

- The songs I used in the video are 1) Zhu Fengbo – “Olive Tree” and 2) The Kingpins – “L’aventurier” – visit the Kingpins website if you want to know more, they are very cool I think.

- This is not a strict “1 pic a day” video, because I wanted to make it a bit more alive by adding some additional movement. Sometimes during the film you would follow me turn around, or something would happen in the background. I tried to capture these moments to make the video more interesting.

- The core of this project is in fact my website “www.thelongestway.com” where I have posted my extensive travel diary, starting from day 1 (Nov 9th 2007) and describing every single day until the end one year later.

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